GOP Victories Unsung
In the weeks since the election, the general consensus has been that Republicans got hammered. From Mitt Romney’s Election Day collapse to the party’s failure to take back the Senate and prevent ballot initiatives legalizing same-sex marriage, Republicans...
About that Fiscal Cliff
Yikes, we’re headed toward a fiscal cliff! It will crush the economy! Or so the media and politicians tell us. The “cliff” is a series of tax increases and budget cuts that automatically go into effect Jan. 1 unless Congress acts. Will Congress act?...
Unknown Faces of the Civil War
In the song “Home,” Phillip Phillips sings, “If you get lost, you can always be found.” That’s exactly what the Museum of the Confederacy hopes. Nine of its photographs from the Civil War are unidentified. The museum calls them...
News from Around the South, 11/9-11/16
Alabama: Kickoff for “Civil War Christmas” By Kelly Kazek, al.com ATHENS, Alabama – A little more than 150 years ago, Athens was embroiled in a pivotal battle whose outcome would decide if the Civil War would continue to be fought as a gentleman’s war, or...
Southern Scholar Passes
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, a leading historian whose influential book “Southern Honor” illuminated the ethics and fear of shame that defined the moral code of the old South, died Nov. 5 at his home in Baltimore. He was 80 and had pulmonary fibrosis. His wife,...Obiter Dicta
We’ve seen masked government agents roughing people up, shouting obscenities at them, trapping them on freezing cold roofs, smashing their Read More
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VIRGINIA: Mobile museum bringing Virginia history across the Commonwealth CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — It is a truck on a mission to teach young students and families about Virginia history. While Read More